The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
the recent railroad disaster at Chatsworth,

Il. j. Anderson Tor governor.
JUDGE McCuE having declined, Professor
G. Brown Goode has been appointed com
missioner of fish and fisheries.
REV. JOHN CLARK, a retired Congrega-
tional clergyman, died at his home in Rum
ney, n. H., aged eighty-seven.
A BRAKEMAN named Nordaby leaped
from his train into the Housatonic river and
rescued lady from drowning.
FIVE thousand physicians from all over
the world are attending the international
medical congress in Washington.
THE New Hampshire legislature has in
definitely postponed the bill to establish a
new judiciary system in that state.
HORSES are dying by the hundred through
out New York from disease which is be-
lieved to he cerebro spinal meningitis.
G.. w. WILKINS, a boat builder at Batten-
kill, Pa, has fled to Canada with 500, 900
| in his pocket, leaving debts of over half that
sum.
THE Concord road it is said has the state
senate and the Boston * Maine the house
in their fight in the New Hampshire legis-
lature.
BAIRD Knox SNYDER, an English adj
venturer, attempted to murder Pennsylva-
mia beiress recently because she discarded
his suit.
THE works of the St. Louis Car-wheel
Company were destroyed by fire last week.
The loss is estimated at about 100000; fully
insured.
THERE has been an alarming outbreak of
trichinosis in Brunswick, Germany. So far
sixty persons have been affected, seven of
whom have died.
THE famous original Tichborne claimant
bobs up again, this time as a mixer of fancy
drinks in an obscure hotel on Chatham
square, New York.
A TRoTTING race took place at Fostoria,
Ohio, Thursday night on the fair grounds
illuminated by natural gas. Many people
went to see the sight.
The Manufacturers Record reports the
corn crop in the Southern States exceeds
last years by 50,000,000 bushels and the
year before by 70,000,0OO
A FARMHOUSE and outbuildings in Win
chester, n. H., were burned last week, and
the occupant, Frank Burt, aged sixty who
was an invalid, was burned with them.
BISHOP WILLIAM l.. HARRIS of the Metho-
dist Church died in New York Friday of
fatty degeneration of the heart and stop
page of the hearts valves, aged sixty years.
The President has ordered Governor
Adams of Colorado to see that the Ute res
ervaton is not invaded by state forces. If
this order is obeyed it is believed that peace
will be maintained
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY,
who has been asked to visit Ireland to
luTIHeT Une pOllCy OI nome RUE, says he Will
90 gladly whenever the Irish leaders may
think his pre- sence advisable.
AN excursion train over the Kansas City
& Pacific railroad, containing over eight hun
dred people, was ditChed on its return trip
between Erie and Moran. A number of the
people were injured, one fatally.
THE SIMS Philadelphia special says that
Ex-Governor Robert +. Patterson is to be
appointed secretary of the interior and that
| Snprptory Lar will hp rivap the nj
seat on the supreme court bench
AT Racine, Wis, Jay-Eye-See' trotted
one of the fastest miles ever made on half
mile course The first quarter was made in
thirty-sx seconds, half mile in LOS, three
quarters in Lac and the mile in 2.17i
G. NJ. HovEY, the veteran hortculturist,
died at his home in Cambridge, Mass, Fri
day, aged about seventy-seven. He was
the best and most widely known Ameri-
can pomologist and horticuturist in this
| country.
AN attempt was made to wreck the even
ing passenger train on the Illinois Central
railway Friday, II tie being placed across
the track near cut on curve. The OBJ
struction was noticed just in time by the
engineer.
THREE boys, aged from nine to fourteen,
were drowned near Wood Island, y. H.
The Oldest was a son of the late Commander
Philip Johnson. The other boys were named
Mackey and belonged in Boston, The boat
upset in the surf
THE magnificent abbey and college of st.
Mainraid at Indiantown, Ind, was burned
Friday, including valuable library of
1900 volumes, large collection of old and
very rare coins and a large museum, Loss
100000; no insurance.
ST. LOUIS Grand Army men claim that
nearly the whole West has united to sup
port General Grier for grand commander at
the coming encampment, and are confident
he will beat. His only rival is General
Slocum who is well backed by eastern
veterans.
AN epidemic of black diphtheria is raging
at Lockport, Pa, a small town of two hun
bred inhabitants. Nearly half of the
population are reported down with the dis
ease, and thirteen deaths have occurred
within the past five days. The cause is stag
nant pools of water.
AS result of the appointment of the
fishery commission by the British govern
ment to settle the fishery dispute between
Canada and the United States, without con-
sulting the Dominion authorities, it is stated
! in the high official circles that il is Sir John
A. Macdonalds intention to repudiate and
! ignore any decision that may be arrived at.
JEFFERSON DAVIS will go to Macon,
Georgia, to attend the state fair, October
26. An attempt will be made to secure a
| great attendance of ex-rebel soldiers, with
the intention as a Macon dispatch says, of
giving the :" last public demonstration to
the head of the late confederate govern
ment." The same dispatch says the event
| will be forever historical in the South"
SACo, Maine, has a sensation in the dis
appearance of Frank McNeilly, nineteen
year-old clerk in the Saco and Biddeford
| Savings Institution, with quarter of a
million in cash and securities. Young Nc
Nelly is considered insane by his friends.
His brother has gone in search of him. He
has been spending money very lavshly
lately. There was more money in the bank,
which he did not get.
Mrs. j. II. VINCENT, the excellent and be-
loved actress who has been identified with
the Boston Museum for thirty-ive years,
died in Boston Sunday, within fortnight
of her siXty-ninth birthday. Her maiden
name was Mary Ann Farley Both her
father and grandfather We're officials in the
British navy and she was born in Ports
mouth, England, September Is, 1918. She
made her first appearance on the stage
when she was between sixteen and seven
teen at a theater in Cowes, Isle of Wight.